Recently there has been much controversy regarding the question of poppy wearing. Some argue that poppies should not be worn on days other than remembrance Sunday. Newsreaders have been wailed at for wearing a poppy 'far too early'. Others feel that the poppy is a symbol of war and should not be worn at all. For me it is a symbol of remembrance, not war, and if wearing it for about two weeks up to and including remembrance Sunday reminds some people to buy one - all to the well and good. Significant sums are collected and used to fund the injured, purchase medical equipment and assist widows and so on. Long may the poppy be worn.
Let me highlight just a few of our cherished Ushaw Moor war dead:
Edward Atkinson, Joseph Bone, Mark Turner DCM, Thomas N Ferguson, Thomas Metcalf and Robert Mosley.
One stanza from a Laurence Binyon poem is very famous:
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
WB
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I spent five years in the Army and proudly wear my poppy. It is an outward sign of my appreciation for the hundreds of thousands of British men and women who gave their lives or were maimed in the service of thei country. My own father joined up at the age of eighteen years and lost a leg due to shrapnel and gangrene. He was proud of being a member of the British Legion and of his regiment the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. It is thanks to these individuals who made the ultimate sacrifice or like my Dad were badly wounded that we can put our thoughts onto the Internet.
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